Philosophy For Our Times

A podcast by The Institute of Art and Ideas

454 Episodes

  1. How to use philosophy for a better life | Rebecca Roache

    Published: 1/3/2023
  2. Where sceptics fail | with Alex O'Connor

    Published: 12/27/2022
  3. Did hunter-gatherers have a better life? | Mark Williams, Peter Lilley, Natalie Bennett

    Published: 12/20/2022
  4. Will science crack the mystery of consciousness? | Bernardo Kastrup, Patricia Churchland, Carlo Rovelli

    Published: 12/13/2022
  5. Writing the self | Meg Rosoff

    Published: 12/6/2022
  6. The search for certainty | Simon Blackburn, Hilary Lawson, Ruth Chang

    Published: 11/29/2022
  7. The quest for reason | Alister McGrath

    Published: 11/22/2022
  8. The trauma of the everyday | Joanna Kavenna, Ian Parker, Sarah Garfinkel, Mark Salter

    Published: 11/15/2022
  9. The knowledge delusion | Santiago Zabala, Corine Besson, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

    Published: 11/8/2022
  10. Postmodernism in the dock | Julian Baggini, Mina Salami, Hilary Lawson and Julie Bindel

    Published: 11/1/2022
  11. Is moral responsibility an illusion? | Galen Strawson, Massimo Pigliucci, Sarah Garfinkel

    Published: 10/25/2022
  12. Are we predisposed to catastrophise? | Elise Valmorbida, Meg Rosoff and Nick Zangwill

    Published: 10/18/2022
  13. Did consciousness evolve? | Donald Hoffman, Iain McGilchrist, Eva Jablonka and Michelle Montague

    Published: 10/11/2022
  14. If it doesn't kill you | Susie Orbach, Anders Sandberg, and Havl Carel

    Published: 10/4/2022
  15. Where language fails us | Kehinde Andrews, John McWhorter and Laurie Ann Paul

    Published: 9/27/2022
  16. Is science objective? | Rupert Sheldrake, Peter Atkins, Steve Fuller, Angela Saini

    Published: 9/20/2022
  17. Monsters of pantheism| Mary-Jane Rubenstein

    Published: 9/13/2022
  18. Are facts trustworthy? |Simon Blackburn, Sophie Grace Chappell and Anandi Hattiangadi

    Published: 9/6/2022
  19. A world of illusions | James Ladyman, Peter Atkins, Joanna Kavenna

    Published: 8/30/2022
  20. The post-natural world of tomorrow | Yuval Noah Harari, Slavoj Žižek

    Published: 8/24/2022

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